I hate misinformation, it breeds contempt
The Concert: The initiative, called 46664 and spearheaded by Nelson Mandela, was launched in London on Tuesday. The five digits 46664 represented Mr Mandela's prison number for more than 18 years while he was kept prisoner in South Africa's Robben Island jail.
The concert was not in Mandela's honor, but it was spearheaded by him and those who participated did so "TO BRING AIDS AWARENESS TO AFRICA".
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Who is Mandela? (A Staunch Christian)
Thirty years in jail as a political prisoner didn't embitter NELSON MANDELA. One of his greatest regrets, after being released from Robben Island Prison in 1990, was that he forgot to thank the prison guards. So it came as no surprise that, when he was elected president in South Africa's first all-race elections in 1994, he regularly consulted his former captors about his plans to construct a racially integrated, democratic society.
The foster child of a Thembu chief, Mandela was groomed to rule the tribe. But like all nonwhite South Africans, Mandela was painfully aware of the grim realities of apartheid, the legal separation of races. The injustices he witnessed propelled him into politics and law. As a young college student he was suspended for joining a protest boycott. He moved to Johannesburg, where he finished his degree by correspondence, and joined the African National Congress, a black nationalist movement.
He was subsequently convicted of sabotage and conspiracy to overthrow the government and sentenced to life imprisonment. During his 27 years behind bars, Mandela galvanized worldwide support for the fight against apartheid by becoming a symbol for equal rights and justice.
After his release in 1990 he played a pivotal role as ANC president in negotiating the end of apartheid. In 1993 he shared the Nobel Peace Prize with South African President F.W. de Clerk and a year later, at age 75, was elected president himself. On Dec. 10, 1996 amid chants of "Power to the people!" Mandela signed the country's new constitution, which includes sweeping human-rights and antidiscrimination guarantees.
Mandela stepped down a president in June 1999. He left behind a country still troubled by racial hatred, crushing poverty and staggering violent crime. But he remains the most revered man in the country, credited with a remarkable transition from tyranny to democracy, and a commitment to reconciliation that saved the country from a violent bloodbath.
He should not be worshipped... but he deserves the admiration and respect that he receives.
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